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Thursday, January 10th 2008, 12:46 PM


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Barack Obama speaks at St. Peter's College in Jersey City. (CLICK PHOTO FOR AUDIO SLIDESHOW)

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John Edwards greets crowd on South Carolina campaign stop at Clemson University.
WASHINGTON - Look out, Hillary! Barack Obama is coming out swinging since you knocked him to the mat in New Hampshire.

"We have to make sure that we take it to them just like they take it to us," Obama vowed.

As Clinton basked in the glory of her miraculous rebound, a scrambling Obama and his campaign team launched the first flurry of body blows.

Obama's national campaign co-chairman, Jesse Jackson Jr., slammed Clinton's now-famous misty-eyed moment by wondering aloud why she didn't shed public tears for victims of Hurricane Katrina, for example.

"They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs. Clinton did not cry for," Jackson told MSNBC.

"Particularly," he emphasized, "as we head to South Carolina, where 45% of African-Americans will participate in the Democratic contest, and they see real hope in Barack Obama."